Calcivis, a medical devices company focused on revolutionising the management of tooth decay and enabling preventive dentistry, has announced that it has begun recruitment into a clinical study of...
Renowned for innovation, Philips’ new product connects the digital world with dental care. Want to know how it works? Here, oral health expert and dental hygienist Christina Chatfield, puts it through...
Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry has signed a collaboration agreement with the Shen Yang Hospital of Stomatology – the fourth Chinese institution with which it has forged a...
New figures published on January 11, by the Local Government Association (LGA) show there were more than 40,000 hospital operations to remove rotting teeth in children and teenagers last year,...
Mervyn Druian, co-founder of The London Centre for Cosmetic Dentistry has become the honoured International President of the Alpha Omega Dental Society for 2017.
Following concerns expressed by the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) on January 3, that a ‘cake culture’ in UK workplaces is having a negative impact on oral health, Sameer Patel of elleven has...
A new study reveals cost of dental patients at A&E could be ten times official government estimates. Dental leaders say costs to NHS could now be as much as £18m.
The British Dental Association (BDA) has lambasted the Northern Ireland Government for backtracking on an agreement to modernise the contracts of community dentists, who serve the most vulnerable...
Now an established part of the dental education calendar, Ivoclar Vivadent’s ICDE event is back for 2017, bigger and better than ever. Following on from the sell out successes of 2010 to 2015, this...
HMRCs new Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme will present “a severe headache” for the majority of dentists and be yet another cost that they will have to cover. That’s according to NASDAL (the National...
A leading dental academic and clinician from Plymouth University, Professor Elizabeth Kay MBE, has played a key role in a draft quality standard to improve oral health in care homes and hospitals...
As 2017 begins, we enter what promises to be another exciting and intriguing year in the world of dentistry.
Professor Liz Kay, foundation dean at the Peninsula Dental School at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD), has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British...
The British Dental Association has commented on the publication of a letter from dental professionals in the Daily Telegraph, which calls for the dental system in England to be removed from...
A huge success and leap forward for dental science, this year’s Perio Workshop outcomes were the result of a significant collaboration between the EFP (European Federation of Periodontology) and ORCA...